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  Life: A User's Manual

  by Georges Perec

  This marvellous book is one of the most ingenious works of modern fiction, an entire microcosm brought to life in a Paris apartment block. Serge Valene wants to create an elaborate painting of the building he has made his home for the last sixty years. As he plans his picture, he contemplates the lives of all the people he has ever known there. Chapter by chapter, the narrative moves around the building revealing... (more)
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  Things/a Man Asleep (Verba Mundi (Paperback))

  by Georges Perec

  With the American publication of Life, a User's Manual in 1987, Georges Perec was immediately recognized in the U.S. as one of this century's most innovative writers. Now Godine is pleased to issue two of his most powerful novels in one volume: Things, in an authoritative new translation, and A Man Asleep, making its first English appearance. Both provoked strong reactions when they first appeared in the 1960s;... (more)
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  Species of Spaces and Other Pieces (Twentieth Century Classics)

  by Georges Perec

  This selection of non-fictional work from the author of "Life, a User's Manual", demonstrates Georges Perec's characteristic lightness of touch, wry humour and accessibility.
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  La Disparition (French Language Edition)

  by Georges Perec